1936-07-20 — Page 6

WHITBREAD'S

PALE ALE

BRITAIN'S

BEST BEER

THE PRODUCT OF A BREWING EXPERIENCE EXTENDING OVER 200 YEARS AND THE BIGGEST SELLER IN ENGLAND TO-DAY.

Sole Agents:-.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LTD.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

• GREAT

SUMMER

ESALE

JULY 20th to AUG. Ist

● ALL STOCKS GREATLY REDUCED!

OUTSTANDING BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.

PURCHASE NOW

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY-20, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street, Holy Kong,

Telephone 20022

London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, WC2

Notice To Contributors.

Here There and Everywhere

All communications intended for SANCTIONS DEBATE publication should be addressed to the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address not necessarily for insertion, but ļas a guarantee of good faith,

Subscription Rates.

One Year..... 6 Months

3 Months

HE$35.00

HK $18.00 HKS 9.00

Postage Abroad Extra

4

-EXPLANATION

OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Three-Quarters Of A

Century On The Job

UNIQUE record in the a- A nals of American industry

than 75

CINEMA'S EFFECTS ON WOMEN

MRS. GRUNDY KILLED IN THE WEST

PURDAH SYSTEM ABANDONED IN

EASTERN COUNTRIES

(By W. J. Passingham)

NLY those who knew the pre-,for centuries. In Asiatic countries,

OZ war woman can best appre-the influence of films has wrought

tremendous sigl

Not even in the stormy days of is that of Edward A Brownell, September, 1931, has the House of who has worked more Commons had a debate carried years in the factory of the Singer through in such a sustained at-Sewing Machine Company at mosphere of heat as last month's Bridgeport, Conn. To-day, at the jdebate on sanctions.

age of 95, he is still in good health The debate was exceptional in and efficiently active that the first five speeches came! Mr. Brownell left home when ciate her counterpart of 1996. changes of from the two dispatch boxes, but 7 years of age, and for 6 years Even to their mothers the stylish, ficance. Women of the harem, which meant that the House re-was obliged to work long hours on coiffured, hard-riding, hard-work-slaves of the household, geisha When but 16 day are something of an enigma. they were sold to new owners as Hong Kong. Monday, July 20, 1936 jmained full from four until after a farm, going to school only one-ling, wise-cracking damsels of to-lgirls imprisoned in houses where

seven. Feeling always ruas higher third of each year.

From where has the modern girl part of the establishment, - have in a full House.

years old he ran a farm on shares, Lord Londonderry And Cheers, ironic laughter and in-and even after he started work in obtained her ideas? Who or what burst the bondage of centuries and the the sewing machine factory, he is responsible for the transforma-found freedom of movement and terjections punctuated Air Strengths speeches of Mr. Eden, Mr. Green- spent his spare time operating ation and emancipation of women expression at last. Life as de

dairy.

the world over?

picted on the screen, showing the wood and Mr. Lloyd George.

For 18 years in the factory he

The truth is that comparatively freedom and status of women be- Lord Londonderry's pointed The Prime Minister once again repudiation last month of cer-proved himself a "House of Com-polished hooks, then for 15 years few people have realised just what longing to Western civilisation,

screw

they are looking at in our modern has inspired the women of all an- be tain statements made by Mr-mons man" by the quiet attention he operated drilling and

There is something cient nations, so that a universal women. Baldwin in the House of Com-!

he drew even from the most hos-machines, and for 12

has been in inspector of books, mons on a well remembered ole section of the Socialists.

the briefest and is considered one of the best. strangely familiar, yet hard to re-freedom has been established l cognise, in the high-steppers of few short years which all the casion in May, 1935,

to-day. You will find the clue forces of war could not hope to long be left unanswered. It

Your Daily Smile!

you seek at the cinema. Walk the accomplish.

There

Baker. is Josephine any British shopping streets of

village, and beautiful coloured dancer of both "An optimist," says someone whose city, town, or even who believes that whatever happens.

was

cannot

Mr. Baldwin "was

He rose

a direct attack on his of the chief speakers. spoken and considered word by earlier than he had intended be- one who until June of last year cause of a wild clamour from the was Secretary of State for Air Opposition for him to reply at

P

years

in Mr. MacDonald's Adminis-jonce to Mr. Lloyd George's as-name we don't know, "is a fellow you will recognise them the Gar-stage and screen. appearing be-

tration and Mr. Baldwin's tack. Cabinet colleague. What is al

That noisy clamour -made

•

"

no matter how bad, is for the best. 90s, the Shearers, the Colberts,fore thousands of negro audiences the The pessimist is the fellow to whom and those whose curls reveal the all over the American and African only Ginger Rogers fan. Film-made wo-jcontinents. displaying not

nature's charms but magnificent men!

jewellery and the latest creations "Step Like Ginger" You have to walk the residential from Paris. Women of the cotton- A western bookseller wrote to Chicago frm asking or a dozen copies quarters of any work-class neigh-fields, the veldt, the bush, and the of Canon Farrar's "Seeker After bourhood to meet the fans of Fred plantations can see a girl of thei God."

*

HM-M

•

CRUELTY

.

2

issue can be very simply stat-Prime Minister's achievement in it happens.” ed. On the day in question Mr.jobtaining so respectful a hearing Baldwin, then Lord President of the more remarkable. the Council, said that the Gor- ernment had been "completely THE OLD L.G.” misled" as to the rate at which

Mr. Lloyd George was in his old

He received this reply by wire: Astaire's famous dancing partner. own colour living in a freedom. German rearmament in the air

All sides of the House

"No seekers after God in Chicago or The real box-office value of Gin-and luxury hitherto beyond their "could be and actually was be form.

ger Rogers is revealed by the fact imagination. Josephine Baker driv- ing speeded up" during the pre-joined in the laughter at his pic-ew York Try Philadelphia."

that all over the country teachersfing her own automobile.......... "I will not ture of the Government "leading"

working rious six months.

of "tap" dancing are

Chiefs In "Autos” say," said Mr. Baldwin, that at Geneva, ending with the phrase

Hallo called a feminine voice

It is significant that in 1985 we did not hear rumours. There running away now still lead-

over the telephone, is that the Hu-overtime. There is at the moment

a universal demand for teachers local chiefs in was a good deal of hearsay, butjing."

"Yes," replied the official in charge who can show others how to "stepena and Rhodesia bought mo- could get

no fact." To The Chancellor he called the mane Society?" that Lord Londonderry last heir to the throne who was trying Well, there's a book canvasser sit-like Ginger Rogers, please." Thottor cars by the dozen from Euro-

American ipean and

manufac- The Governmentting up in a tree in my garden teasing sands of girls, with long curls) month replied: "Mr. Baldwin on the crown.

waving gracefully around turers. Now Eons. elephants, and never was misled. He was con-he accused of jumping about like my dog,"

nape of the neck, are learning to others jungle creatures are so tinually being informed by mela "aving fea.”

shuffle, step, and otherwise “make used to motor-cars that they lay not only of German

Mr. Lloyd George lost his audi-

Willie: "My teacher says the world it snappy." You can sometimes

basking on the sunny forest roads ment in the air, but of its ap-lence, however, when his criticism proximate date." The contra- of the Government "going forward is round. If I wanted to go east

scorching across Africa in fivvers. diction, therefore, could hard with no resolute aim, sometimes could get there by going west, then come across a little group of the land are run over by dusky flappers China is floundering in a wave of feminine dictatorship. Armies land navies failed to westernise

we

rearma

be more direct or complete. moving to the right and sometimes Probably the first question to the left," was capped by a voice the public will ask is, "Why has which remarked: "Just like the Lord Londonderry waited so old Coalition." long?"

CINEMA FIRE

¡couldn't I?"

C

A SIGN

Father: "Yes, my sok.

&

You'll be

a taxi driver when yon grow up.”

*

*

*

HIGHER THE FEWER

When he quitted the Air Ministry upon Mr. Baid- win's

Mac succeeding Mr. Donald as Prime Minister, 167

Six hundred people left the Lido to make a dozen." days after the speech in ques-)

he accepted at Mr. Bald-Cinema, Islington, in two minutes

*

I

the

standing round a friend who taps out her new steps on the pave ment before an admiring audience Hollywood Iconoclasts

South Africa,

The influence of the screen on China, although they tried for Pat (locking in a greengrocer's the lives of the women of ancient centaries, but films have brought window): Those are mighty big nations is, however, of even grea-widespread reaction in less than oranges, Mike.”

Mike: "Yes, it wouldn't take many ter and far-reaching importance. ten years. Shanghai, which has Pictures of modern life in the most defied the white man's civilisation progressive and prosperous - na, and all attempts at reform, now tions have penetrated to the has a ten million Civic Centre for "What's the matter earth's most secluded corners, Stadium, with a vast arena Privy Seal, which he retained and damaged a few yards of foor-with my game?"

Golf Pro Well, first you'll have to sweeping away age-old customs sports and one of the finest swim- until the reconstruction of the ing.

unlearn all you know about the game and ideas, breaking down barriers ming pools in the world.

that have held women in slavery (Continued on Page. 10) Cabinet in November after thei

II take only a minute." General Election. It is surpris-

and SAVE MONEY!ds the office of Lord when fire broke out there recently

STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 5.30 PM. DURING SALE

HOW CLEAN

IS CLEAN?.

You'll never know until you give ZORIC a job!

ZORIC

GAUMEAT GALANING SYSTEM

We don't mind admitting we couldn't believe our eyes when we saw the first suit come out of It went in dirty our new Zoric Cleaning Unit.

and dingy. But when it came out well, the nap was" perked up, the fabric was bright and clean as the-day it was tailored. Zoric Drycleaning will cause you to revise your ideas of cleanness, too. Try it--and see.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.

Mongkok, Kowloon

Telephone 57032

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS, DIAMOND MERCHANTS. UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS. ROSS BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manuf

High Class English Jewellery.

Did

ing, therefore, that Lord Lon-concentrated all her tremendous donderry did not take an ear-energies on rearmament, while lier opportunity of correcting the British programme proceed- what he now declares to be an ed at a jog-trot pace. absolute misstatement of fact Mr. MacDonald for he was -the more so as it reflected so then Prime Minister know seriously upon himself and upon the facts and realise their por:

the tent? his principal advisers at

Lord Londonderry last: Ministry. At the time the ex-month spoke only of Mr. Bald- planation given to the public win as having been kept con- was that the German rearma-tinually informed by him. The ment had been conducted with main responsibility, however, such intense and impenetrable was then with Mr. MacDonald. secrecy that no reliable in- At the same time, it must be formation was procurable. Yet recalled, Sir Philip Sassoon, the it was as well known as any-Under-Secretary for Air, speak- thing could be known which ing in the House of Commons! Germany desired to conceal as the mouthpiece of his Chief, that all the German factories disclaimed the alarmist ma engaged in making aeroplanes mours then current On March and engines had been feverish 20 he claimed that "on ly working overtime for months basis of calculation we should past. The exact rate of deve-at the end of 1935 possess a lopment, of course, could not be margin of superiority, and he known, but when early in still held that view on April March, 1935, the Nazi Govern-10, while admitting that Ger- ment solemnly announced to many's rate of development the German public that Ger-was causing the Government many once more possessed an "grave

concern." This, of air force, while soon after Herr course, was after the Hitler- Hitler frankly informed Sir Simon interview. A. month John Simon that the German later all confidence in British Air Force was already about superiority faded out, and it equal to the British, the shock was realised that Herr Hitler's of the announcement was much claim to equality related not to greater than the actual sur-the R.A.F. in Europe only, but prise.

Ito the total RAF strength

•

any

It is very difficult to under throughout the Empire.L stand how Mr. Baldwin can Lord Londonderry's statement have made his reassuring of last month be correct, why speech of November, 1934, un-did he allow his Under-Secre less on direct information from tary to mislead the Commons the Air Ministry. "We estim-on several occasiona? By not ate," he then said, "that we disclaiming Sir Philip Sassoon's shall still have in November, statements he, in fact, accepted 1935, a margin of nearly 50 per them, and allowed them to go cent over Germany.” That forth as his own. It is a mi was if Great Britain expanded ter for regret that this. according to the modest 1934 tion should have been raise programme and if Germany did so unpropitious 2 moment, not accelerate Whether that there is surely no doubt calculation was actually correct the Prime Minister will in November 1934, need not early opportunity to reply T now be considered; the heart of then judgment should the matter is that Germany in anspense.

*

* UMPH!

Beginner:

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

WHEN THE HOME OF EWING READY BURNED TO THE GROUND A. PAN OF BISCUITS ONTOP OF AREFRIGERATOR WAS FOUND LINHARMED MO BAKED A PERFECT BROWN Hollis, Okla

THE ORIENTAL FISH (Haplochromis)

NURTURES HER YOUNG IN HERMOUTH

SEVEND FIVE YEARS ON THE JOB

Coon HAS

THE LAST 75 YEARS